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Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

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'10 WOTTON REINFREDafflicted scholars ? Or would he dissect me and experimentupon me ?* Patience ! patience ! '' said the other ; he is agood man, and my friend. Do but hsten.' He readas follows :*The end <strong>of</strong> man is an Action, not a Tlwwjlit, saysAristoteles ; the wisest thing he ever said. Doubtis natural to a human being, for his conceptionsare infinite, his powers are only finite. Neverthelessit must be removed, and this not by negationbut by affirmation. From experience springsbelief, from speculation doubt, but idleness is themother <strong>of</strong> unbelief. Neither is our happiness passive,but only active ; few men know this, though all in<strong>words</strong> admit it, hence their life is a perpetual seekingwithout finding.*Bring thy friend Eeinfred hither ; I have longknown him, though he knows not me. So fair anature will not perish in its own superfluity, be itscircumstances for the present never so perplexed.Ilis state is painful, but in the end it yields peaceablefruits.It must at some time be the state <strong>of</strong> all menwho are destined to be men. Bring him hither, thathe may see what he has yet but heard <strong>of</strong>. Time willindeed be his physician, be it there or here : but Iwould gladly do myself a pleasure in knowing him.Happy and unhappy two-legged animals about me aremany, but happy or even unhappy men are very.'few. . .

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